National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, Section 350 ("Strategy and assessment on use of automation and artificial intelligence for shipyard optimization")

• Authority: United States Congress
• Parent authority: Federal government
• Jurisdiction: United States
• Collections: NDAA provisions;U.S. federal laws
• Most recent activity: Enacted
• Most recent activity date: 2023-12-22

Risk subdomain coverage

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the risk subdomain are described.

• Lack of capability or robustness

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

This document has minimal risk domain coverage, focusing primarily on AI system capabilities and implementation rather than risks. The only substantive coverage relates to AI system safety and robustness (7.3) in the context of predictive maintenance reliability. The document does not address discrimination, privacy, misinformation, malicious use, human-computer interaction, socioeconomic impacts, or advanced AI safety concerns.

Sector coverage

Good coverage — Comprehensive governance measures or mitigations with clear procedures relating to the sector are explicitly described.

• National Security

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the sector are described.

• Professional & Technical Services

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

This document primarily governs the National Security sector, specifically the U.S. Navy's shipyard operations and maintenance activities. It also has secondary coverage of Professional and Technical Services through requirements to leverage commercial best practices from civilian shipyards.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding statutory provision enacted by the U.S. Congress as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, containing mandatory obligations on the Secretary of the Navy with specific deadlines and deliverables.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: United States Congress
• Summary: The document is Section 350 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024, which is enacted by the United States Congress as the legislative authority.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Secretary of the Navy; Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program of the Department of the Navy; Navy shipyards
• Summary: The document explicitly targets the Secretary of the Navy and the Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program, requiring them to develop AI strategies and conduct assessments for Navy shipyard operations.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Congressional defense committees; United States Congress
• Summary: The congressional defense committees serve as the enforcement body through oversight mechanisms, requiring the Secretary of the Navy to provide briefings on implementation within 180 days.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: Congressional defense committees
• Summary: The congressional defense committees are designated to receive briefings on the strategy, assessment results, and execution plans, establishing them as the monitoring body for this initiative.

AI Lifecycle Stages

Lifecycle stages covered by the documents, as defined in the OECD Framework for the Classification of AI Systems

• Plan and Design
• Collect and Process Data
• Build and Use Model
• Verify and Validate
• Deploy
• Operate and Monitor

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document primarily addresses the Plan and Design stage by requiring development of an AI strategy for shipyard optimization, and the Operate and Monitor stage through requirements for predictive maintenance assessment and ongoing monitoring of shipboard assets. It also touches on Build and Use Model through references to demonstrating AI technologies and executing models.

Technical Scope

Terms relating to technical scope that are mentioned or implicitly referenced in the document

• AI Models
• AI Systems
• Predictive AI
• Task-specific AI

Technical Scope Summary

The document explicitly mentions artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in the context of predictive maintenance for Navy shipyards. It does not reference specific AI model types, frontier AI, general purpose AI, or compute thresholds. The focus is on practical AI applications for maintenance prediction rather than technical AI model specifications.